Pilar Rodriguez Ledo and Jesus Polo.
mortality in spain throughout this year it has surpassed those of the past 2021as highlighted in the latest report of the Statistics National Institute (INE). A total of 275.872 personas have died in our country until July 25 of this year, 13.317 more than in the same week of 2021. Given this situation, the Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians (Semerge) and the Spanish Society of General and Family Physicians (SEMG) have initiated an analysis to know in detail the causes of this deathsand expect a prompt response from the Ministry of Health to find solutions. Among the main reasons is the negative effect from pandemic to sanitary systemthe delay of diagnose diseases during the lockdown already the recent hello heat that devastates Spain.
Given this situation and before drawing hasty conclusions, Pilar Rodríguez Ledofirst vice president of SEMG, affirms in Medical Writing that “all these deaths must be analyzed and know what are the causes to try to find a solution. Although the percentage of deaths linked to the pandemic is lower, there are people who continue to die every week. It is true that more people die than in previous years, and another factor to take into account is the heat wave”.
Health care, hit during confinement
The mortality figures published by the INE have set off the alarms within SEMG, which through its different working groups hopes to draw results and conclusions as soon as possible on the origen of this high mortality. “There is a huge impact when it comes to chronic diseases, which is being studied by the chronicity group. On the other hand, groups of emergencies have focused on the hello heat and its consequences in terms of mortality.
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Polo: “The lack of control of chronic pathologies during confinement is taking its toll now” |
Joseph Polopresident of Semergen, also defends in this medium the need to analyze the high mortality suffered by Spain, and puts the focus on the ineffective healthcare that took place during the confinement: “There are still many coronavirus deaths every week, even lack of health control of chronic pathologies during confinement is taking its toll now. In one year there was no control of patients with cardiovascular pathologies. Another possibility being considered is the delay in diagnose oncological pathologies throughout the lockdown. With prudence we must analyze all these causes”.
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Ledo: “There is a great impact when it comes to chronic diseases” |
Societies await a reaction from Health
Faced with this situation, the two companies hope that the Ministry of Health pronounce itself before this unusual scenario to provide solutions as soon as possible. “I want to think that the Ministry is analyzing these figures, they have first hand data and we are waiting to hear the analysis carried out by the institution”, says Rodríguez Ledo.
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